cooling
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
- During the summer, the cooling of the air inside the building is essential for comfort.
- heating and cooling
- cooling rate
- evaporative cooling
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Watch on YouTubeOne could be so bold as to say that this cooling could be worse.
- One could be so bold as to say that this cooling could be worse.
Examples
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Others pump water through sprinkler heads that cast a cooling mist above their orchards.
Fiction book (1999) -
Without cooling. it gets hot very fast.
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And this must be a secondary cooling system.
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Recently, processes have been developed that use cooling rates of tens of degrees per second for short times.
Academic text (2011) -
So that's how much cooling I can create, right?
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The atmosphere too must readjust to the rapid cooling when the sun sets.
Academic text (1993) -
I'll be wrapped in a cooling blanket, bringing my core body temperature down to 86 degrees.
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Memere and I regarded the new house, its vinyl siding and fresh blacktop cooling with the dusk.
Fiction book (2001) -
The cooling process of the soup took longer than expected.
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The cooling fan in my computer helps prevent overheating.
Synonyms
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2.5
Making food or drink cold to keep it fresh
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4.2
A short time when a machine gets colder after heavy use
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3.3
A drop in the temperature of something
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.3
A set of parts that remove heat to keep a machine or building cool
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4.5
A tall tower at a factory or power plant that cools water by letting some water evaporate
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3.7
The system that removes heat from a car engine to stop overheating
How Cool
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cooling comes from the simple word cool, which means 'not warm', plus the ending -ing that shows an action or process. So cooling is the action of becoming 'not warm' or a drop in temperature.